Burger King Chicken Royale Copycat Recipe
A breadcrumbed chicken fillet, shredded lettuce and mayonnaise in a long sesame bun. Deliberately plain, and the crum…
Cooking Burger King at home, and what its menu costs
Flame-grilled rather than griddled, which changes what you need to do at home more than you would think.
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The Burger King recipes on this site
Not every menu item has a recipe here, and that is deliberate - We write a page when there is something genuinely worth saying about how to make the thing.
Burger King Whopper Copycat Recipe
A flame-grilled quarter-pound patty, a serious quantity of mayonnaise, and more raw vegetable than any other chain bu…
Burger King Zesty Sauce Copycat Recipe
The onion ring dip. Horseradish, ketchup and mayonnaise, with a kick that arrives late. Five minutes and an hour in t…
What Burger King food actually tastes of
Char is the flavour, and char is smoke plus sugar. If you are cooking indoors, a quarter-teaspoon of smoked paprika in the patty seasoning plus a ridged pan gets you most of the way. Liquid smoke works but is very easy to overdo - a scant eighth of a teaspoon for a pound of mince, no more.
The Whopper is a salad sandwich that happens to contain beef. Tomato, lettuce, raw white onion, pickles, ketchup and a lot of mayonnaise. Skimping on the mayonnaise is the single most common reason a home Whopper tastes wrong.
The bun is sesame and soft, and it is toasted on the cut face only. Thirty seconds, dry pan, no butter.
About Burger King
The whole identity of Burger King rests on one process difference: the patty travels through a gas flame broiler on a chain conveyor rather than sitting on a flat-top. That gives char stripes, rendered fat dripping onto flame, and a slightly drier, smokier patty than the McDonald's equivalent.
For a home cook that is good news, because a charcoal grill or a ridged cast iron pan reproduces flame-broiling far more faithfully than a domestic pan reproduces a commercial flat-top. A Whopper made over coals in your own garden is, honestly, a better sandwich than the one you queue for.
The rest of the menu is more ordinary than the marketing suggests, with two exceptions worth the page count: the Zesty sauce that the onion rings come with, and the chicken royale's coating.
What Burger King charges, from the menu we hold
28 priced options across 116 menu sections, as last recorded in United States. Prices move and vary by outlet, so treat these as a reference point rather than a quote.
Half the menu sits between $4.09 and $11.49. Here is the whole spread:
| Position | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest priced item | $1.00 | |
| Middle of the menu | $6.85 | |
| Dearest priced item | $24.99 |
Burger King changes its prices without telling you. We read this menu once a month and keep the reading – have the changes emailed to you, free, one click to stop.
Every reading we hold is on the Burger King price history. The full list is on the Burger King menu page, and the 3 items we have rebuilt at home are listed here.
What Burger King charges in 11 countries
The same item, priced from each country’s own menu and converted to one currency so the columns can be read against each other. Burger King sets prices per market, so a gap here is the chain’s pricing rather than an exchange rate artefact – and the widest gap on this list is Double Whopper®, which costs $11.23 in the dearest market and $4.29 in the cheapest.
| Item | 🇺🇸 USD | 🇬🇧 GBP | 🇦🇺 AUD | 🇨🇦 CAD | 🇮🇪 EUR | 🇳🇿 NZD | 🇸🇬 SGD | 🇵🇭 PHP | 🇭🇰 HKD | 🇲🇾 MYR | 🇹🇭 THB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | $6.28 | — | $4.70 | $5.05 | $6.64 | $2.96 | $7.52 | $4.50 | $5.63 | |
| $3.99 | $1.97 | $3.14 | $2.31 | $3.19 | — | $5.08 | — | — | $2.67 | — | |
| — | $11.23 | $7.68 | — | — | $7.57 | $10.81 | $4.29 | — | — | $7.72 | |
| — | — | — | $4.06 | $2.97 | — | $5.15 | $1.48 | — | $2.30 | $4.44 | |
| — | — | $6.28 | — | $7.06 | $5.05 | $8.12 | $2.24 | — | — | — |
Only items Burger King prices in at least 5 of the markets we hold are listed, because a row with three figures in it is a gap rather than a comparison.
What Burger King sells nearly everywhere
Ranked by how many of the markets in our price data carry the item with a published price. This is computed from the menu tables, so it reflects what the chain actually sells rather than what it advertises.
| Menu item | Markets priced | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Cheeseburger | 7 | - |
| Whopper | 5 | Burger King Whopper Copycat Recipe |
| Whopper Jr. | 4 | - |
| Hamburger | 4 | - |
| Whopper Meal | 4 | - |
| Triple Whopper Meal | 3 | - |
| Double Whopper | 3 | - |
| Double Whopper® | 3 | - |
| Whopper® | 3 | Burger King Whopper Copycat Recipe |
| Plant-Based Whopper | 3 | - |
| Double Cheeseburger | 3 | - |
| Chocolate Sundae | 2 | - |
Build your Burger King order, see what it costs
Tick what you would actually order. The total runs as you go, and where we have built the item at home you will see both figures side by side - 1 of the items below has a fully documented copycat recipe on this site.
Other burger chains
What else people compare Burger King against, and what we hold for each.
McDonald's
8 copycat recipes
Wendy's
4 copycat recipes
Five Guys
4 copycat recipes
Shake Shack
2 copycat recipes
Hardee's
2 copycat recipes
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